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In addition to the NHS, another major source of affluent and middle-class immigrants to the UK is our universities, which are increasingly dependent on the extortionate fees paid by foreign students. In fact, one of the quietly-done liberalising immigration reforms carried out by this Tory government was the abolition of quotas on the number of foreign students permitted into British universities.
Ethnic group
TOTAL NUMBER OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS 3,852,851
White 67.17% 2,587,873
White British 58.74% 2,263,040
White Irish 0.58% 22,308
White Other 11.69% 302,525
Asian 15.96% 614,972
Black 8.23% 316,924
Mixed-race 4.9% 188,919
Other 3.74% 144,163
Country of Birth
TOTAL NUMBER OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS 3,852,851
Europe 85.49% 3,293,817
United Kingdom 76.24% 2,937,292
Irish Republic 0.33% 12,577
Rest of Europe 8.93% 343,948
Africa 4% 154,006
Middle East and Asia 8.59% 331,050
The Americas and the Caribbean 1.69% 65,923
Antarctica and Oceania 0.23% 8,688
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